# Rake

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake/188262>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 8, 2010, 8:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake/188262 "2010-05-08T20:17:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![djames](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@djames](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/djames)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 8:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake/188262/1 "2010-05-08T20:17:41Z")

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I’ve been looking into rake. rake appears to be a very heavy duty  
thing along the lines of make. I’m thinking that there must be some  
pretty serious documentation somewhere; but, I seem to be having  
trouble turning it up. Can someone please point me in the right  
direction? Thanks.

```
      ... doug
```

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**Author:** ![djames](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@djames](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/djames)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 8:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake/188262/2 "2010-05-08T20:20:37Z")

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On May 8, 2010, at 11:16 AM, doug wrote:

> I’ve been looking into rake. rake appears to be a very heavy duty  
> thing along the lines of make. I’m thinking that there must be some  
> pretty serious documentation somewhere; but, I seem to be having  
> trouble turning it up. Can someone please point me in the right  
> direction? Thanks.

[http://rake.rubyforge.org/](http://rake.rubyforge.org/)

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**Author:** ![djames](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@djames](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/djames)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 11:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake/188262/3 "2010-05-08T23:10:21Z")

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> And googling for “ruby rake” turned up:

Yep. I had seen that. I was looking more for comprehensive formal  
documentation like what the link that Philip pointed to. Anyway, I am  
squared away now (at least on that issue). Thanks to all who provided  
input.

```
     ... doug
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**Author:** ![djames](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@djames](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/djames)\
**Post date:** [May 8, 2010, 10:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rake/188262/4 "2010-05-08T22:33:28Z")

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On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Philip H. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> On May 8, 2010, at 11:16 AM, doug wrote:
> 
> > I’ve been looking into rake. rake appears to be a very heavy duty  
> > thing along the lines of make. I’m thinking that there must be some  
> > pretty serious documentation somewhere; but, I seem to be having  
> > trouble turning it up. Can someone please point me in the right  
> > direction? Thanks.
> 
> [http://rake.rubyforge.org/](http://rake.rubyforge.org/)

And googling for “ruby rake” turned up:

A classic exposition on Rake albeit rather old:

> **[Using the Rake Build Language](https://martinfowler.com/articles/rake.html)**
>
> A long-form article entitled: "Using the Rake Build Language"

A much more recent tutorial, with some more links at the end:  
[http://jasonseifer.com/2010/04/06/rake-tutorial](http://jasonseifer.com/2010/04/06/rake-tutorial)

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